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Sat, Nov 28, 2015
Race: Cow Chip XC (3.107 Miles) 00:16:19, Place overall: 1
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Cow Chip XC - 16:19 - 1st place

The next town over from my aunt's house has been doing this low-key cross country race on Thanksgivng weekend for 20 years. I stumbled across it on the internet a few weeks ago and decided that I had to check it out since we didn't have to head back to JFK until the afternoon.

The course was typical high school xc - loops around fields, trail through the woods for a while, and even had a stone wall jump. There wasn't any competition (except for a guy on a mountain bike who couldn't really keep up) and I had a good time running. Taking three straight nights of partying into account and the fact that I wore my biggest/cushiest shoes, this may have been my greatest "adjusted" performance of all-time :-) And I finally notched a win in Connecticut!

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From Rob Murphy on Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 13:43:24 from 24.10.247.181

Great racing Jake. I sometimes think ALL racing should either be track racing or cross country racing. Except for marathons. In other words, how running was 50 years ago.

From Jake K on Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 18:27:10 from 67.166.113.191

XC and track can be great - for all ages. I've definitely had fun running some (3!) cross country races this year. In theory I should love mountain/trail racing, being that I love running and love the mountains, but for whatever reason I just don't want to bring competition into my recreation world (and totally suck at technical stuff) so XC has sort of become a middle ground for me again. The problem is that the races are few and far between!

From Glory in the long run on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 16:58:09 from 174.23.236.120

Those are awesome pics. What do you mean the mountain bike couldn't keep up--how slow does one have to ride?

I know I couldn't run a 16:19 5K but I'm sure I could Mt. Bike one!

From Jake K on Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 20:53:11 from 67.166.113.191

One of the fields we went around had pretty thick grass, and there were a couple of short steep(ish) uphill sections... on those parts I was faster. But if he was riding quicker on the easier parts instead of staying near me, he obviously would have killed me.

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